Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Matthias Andree]

Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-14:

> -	How does HAL allow one cdrecord instance to work
> 	without being interrupted by HAL?

That is not the duty of an external system such as HAL and its daemons,
hald*.

There is ongoing research WRT HAL interruptions, and the final word on
HAL, O_EXCL and everything has not yet been spoken IMO.

Indulge yourself, I'm quite sure this will have been sorted out before
Equinoxe.

> -	How to send non disturbing SCSI commands from another
> 	cdrecord process in case one or more are already running?

Open the device node you obtained and
send non-disturbing commands through it.

No special treatment required.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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